Architecting for Innovation are happy to have Pete back presenting to us.
Digital Transformation in Banking
Current challenges in the banking space;
– Poor customer experience
– Manual processes
– Legacy systems
Opportunity to enhance the banking customer experience;
– Digitise the whole end to end process
– Personalised banking services
Modernise core banking systems;
– Save significant cost and gain speed to market
– Externalise key components such as product & pricing
– Reduce the role of legacy systems
Take advantage of Open Banking;
– Using additional data to personalise offers
– Internal efficiency gains for example home loan use case
Pete Kooner
Country Manager, Australia & NZ
Zafin
Pete is Zafin Country Manager Australia & NZ. He is responsible for driving sales growth and building relationships with local banks. This involves working with clients and technology partners to develop customer-centric solutions to accelerate the bank’s digitisation strategies. Pete has experience developing bespoke client digital banking solutions partnering with global technology vendors.
In his previous role, he was head of Product AU/NZ for J.P. Morgan’s Global Treasury Services (TS) business. He was responsible for driving and commercialising innovative solutions across the TS business with a focus on e-Commerce and the New Payments Platform (NPP). In addition, he was responsible for strategic business planning, client sales, pricing/deal economics, industry relationship management and business process improvement.
Prior to this Pete spent ten years with Citi focusing on driving treasury solutions and sales, people management, programme/project management, client relationship management and strategic planning.
Pete has been heavily involved with the latest banking technologies. He was in the NPP industry design working group and project managed both Apple Pay solutions and multinational in-country high tech receivables.
Pete’s qualifications include Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing), Bachelor of Information Technology (business systems), Certificate in International Cash Management (ACT), Diploma of Financial Services, Diploma in Stockbroking, PMI Certification, Scrum Product Owner Certified and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
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Our next Architecting for Innovation Lunch and Learn is with Sam Harley Databricks and Lakehouse. Wednesday, April 28, 2021
